BLUME, FRIEDRICH; NORTON, MD HERTER (transl)

8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1972

KEYWORDS: classic classical romantic music criticism history

RIPIN, EDWIN M & WRAIGHT, DENZIL & O'BRIEN, G GRANT & FERGUSON, HOWARD & CALDWELL, JOHN & SCHOTT, HOWARD & DOWD, WILLIAM

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PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1989

KEYWORDS: keyboard music instrument early history

HEENAN, ASHLEY

8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: School of Music, University of Canterbury 2004

KEYWORDS: New Zealand national anthem history

n/a

Obl 8vo hardcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs

PUBLISHER: Hodder Moa 2005

KEYWORDS: New Zealand DB Breweries Tui beer graphic design social history

WILLIAMS, Dr ANN (Ed) & MARTIN, Professor G H (Ed)

Heavy super octavo, navy blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 1436pp, VG+ (light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, 4cm closed tear to rear flap)

PUBLISHER: Penguin 2002

KEYWORDS: Doomsday Domesday Book England English history historical texts medieval middle ages surveys land ownership

GISBORNE, THOMAS

Duodecimo, brown leather boards, gilt lettering & rule/decoration to spine, gilt rule to borders of boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, vignette, (6) + vi + 288pp, VG (moderate cracking to spine with 15mm loss to top extrem, moderate cracking to hinges/spine, light bruising & rubbing to extrems, light soiling to boards, moderate to heavy tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, prev. owner's name & inscription in ink to prelims, moderate foxing to prelims & terminals, light to moderate cracking to front & rear gutters)

PUBLISHER: Printed for T Cadell, in The Strand; and W Blackwood, Edinburgh 1823

KEYWORDS: history historical gender roles Thomas Gisborne duties social commentary duty

OLIVER, W H (General Ed)

HEAVY 5 VOL SET- EXTRA SHIPPING REQ'D, VOLS 2 & 4 SIGNED BY CLAUDIA ORANGE, quarto, black heavy boards, gilt lettering spines & front boards, mixed pagination, VG+ (sl rubbing/bruising & fading to extrems/edges, light tanning & soiling to page edges, pamphlet tipped in to front pastedown of vol 1, ex-libris plate to ffep of vol 4) in d/w, VG+ (minor wrinkling/creasing, sl chafing & soiling, light to moderate fading to spines)

PUBLISHER: Allen & Unwin / Dept of Internal Affairs / Bridget Williams / Auckland University Press 1990-2000

KEYWORDS: New Zealand literature dictionaries biographies history historical social

GUTHRIE, W K C

THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, sm gilt ancient Greek illus to front board, xv + 539pp, VG+ (light rubbing & bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (corners of front flap clipped, light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning/rubbing to spine & edges/folds, prev. bookseller's label to front flap)

PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1971

KEYWORDS: ancient Greece Greek philosophy early presocratics pythagoreans historical history literature

MAURER, ARMAND A

Super octavo, aqua buckram boards, silver & gilt lettering & decoration to spine & front board, top page edges stained blue, xxiv + 435pp, VG+ (light bruising to board edges & extrems, light tanning to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, moderate creasing & chpping to edges, moderate tanning & scuffing/chafing to spine & folds/edges)

PUBLISHER: Random House 1968

KEYWORDS: history historical philosophy medieval theosophy theology

BARNES, JONATHAN

FIRST EDITION, THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, x + 353pp, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine & edges of front cover, sl tanning & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1979

KEYWORDS: first editions ancient philosophy philosophers history historical classical literature

BLADES, JAMES

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 509pp, illus/photos, VG+ (light tanning to board edges, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, sm adhesive residue to ffep) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1970

KEYWORDS: first editions music history percussion instruments culture

DEE, JOHN & TURNER, ROBERT (Transcribed, Intro & Annotated) & COUSINS, ROBIN E (Article) & UPTON, CHRISTOPHER (Latin Trans) & CATTELL, CHARLES H (Illus)

Octavo, illus light card covers, green lettering to spine, frontispiece, 126pp, illus/diagrams, VG (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. booksellers' ink stamps to half title page, moderate pencil annotations)

PUBLISHER: The Aquarian Press 1986

KEYWORDS: esoteric Enochian magic magick occult occultism John Dee Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn history historical

BUTLER, ELIZABETH M

Super octavo, purple illus light card covers, yellow lettering to spine, frontispiece, viii + 329pp, illus, VG+ (light chafing & soiling to covers, light tanning & soiling to page edges, light soiling to half title page)

PUBLISHER: Sutton Publishing 1998

KEYWORDS: occult occultism magic magick esoteric history rituals religion

N/A

FIRST EDITION, sm octavo, red stiff buckram boards/covers, gilt lettering to spine & front cover, maps/illus to eps, addenda loosely enclosed to rear, xv + 1102pp, folding maps throughout- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (sl bruising to extrems, sl tanning to page edges, prev. owner's inscription in ink to verso of title page) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, moderate fading to spine) in slipcase, VG (moderate bruising & tanning/foxing)

PUBLISHER: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc 1966

KEYWORDS: first editions travel guides Japan Japanese maps tourist tourism history historical 60s sixties

BENNETT, R S

THIS VOL ONLY, quarto, black light card covers, orange lettering to spine & front cover, xii + 211pp, VG+ (light creasing/peeling & curling to cover egdes, light chafing & soiling to covers, light creasing to fore-edges of prelim pages)

PUBLISHER: None Stated (c.2000s)

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history treaty of Tordesillas Waitangi te tiriti o Waitangi sovereignty British colonialism Spain Portugal

WINTERNITZ, EMANUEL

FIRST EDITION, imperial octavo, grey buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, 240pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, light creasing & moderate chipping to edges, light to moderate rubbing & surface loss, light foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions music musical instruments history historic symbolism western art criticism intepretation appreciation

RUSSELL, RAYMOND & SCHOTT, HOWARD (Revised by)

REVISED EDITION, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained yellow, unpaginated prelims + 208pp + 103 plates to rear- not counted presumed all present, VG+ (light rubbing & discolouration to board edges & extrems, light tanning & foxing/soiling to apge edges & eps, occasional sl foxing to pages throughout) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate fading to spine, moderate tanning, chafing & foxing, moderate foxing to flaps)

PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1973

KEYWORDS: revised edtion music history harpsichords clavichords early keyboards instruments classical

LLEWELYN, JOHN

Super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, xvii + 238pp, VG+ (boards sl warped, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to front & rear eps) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing & chipping to edges, light tanning & fading to spine, light chafing to covers, light tanning to rear)

PUBLISHER: Humanities Press / Macmillan 1985

KEYWORDS: philosophy metaphysics history hermeneutic existentialism ontology phenomenology

BELL, JOHN L

Super octavo, white glossy light card covers, black lettering to spine, xi + 228pp, illus/diagrams, VG+ (light creasing & curling to spine & cover edges, sl chafing & soiling & tanning to covers, sl tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

KEYWORDS: mathematics algebra geometry history calculus philosophy theorems

WALLS, PETER

Super octavo, black heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, xiv + 184pp, Near Fine (sl staining/soiling to top edges of page block) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & tanning to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Boydell Press 2003

KEYWORDS: music history performance entertainment